Mark Shuttleworth: "I simply have zero interest in the crowd who wants to be different. Leet. 'Linux is supposed to be hard so it's exclusive' is just the dumbest thing that a smart person could say." He's right. Lots of interesting insights in this blog post - I may not agree with everything Ubuntu does, but at least it's doing something.

"Starting to loosen up" is simply a display of ignorance, that has ALWAYS been the case for GNU software. People are acting like it's something new, but it is really all they can find to try to argue against Ubuntu. I know this from personal experience because I have tried to make this argument in trying to justify why Canonical are bad.

In truth, there is no good argument, everything they are doing is justifiable right now. People are resisting change, and are focused on their particular interests rather than the bigger picture. Granted Canonical isn't making it very easy to look at the bigger picture, but it is surprising the backlash that has come when they actually tried to clue us in.